Wikimedia Commons: Winners of Picture of the Year 2025
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area.
Attribution: [WAFA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa)
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
Attribution: [Giles Laurent](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Giles_Laurent)
Third place: A [gigantic jet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning#Gigantic_jets) [a kind of upper-atmospheric lightning] photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut [Nichole Ayers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichole_Ayers).
[**Full results here**](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2025/Results/All)
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area.
Attribution: [WAFA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa)
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
Attribution: [Giles Laurent](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Giles_Laurent)
Third place: A [gigantic jet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning#Gigantic_jets) [a kind of upper-atmospheric lightning] photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut [Nichole Ayers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichole_Ayers).
[**Full results here**](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2025/Results/All)